Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-08
LOCAL NEWS.

Town CLERK BrOOkS registered 10 logs
up to Friday night, April l.
The date of the auction sale of Mr.. G.
L. Porter's property has been changed to
Monday next, the 18th inst.
Butter sold in this market, Monday, at
from % cents a pound down. A further
decline in price is predicted.
The Ladies' Library association will be
obliged to make their headquarters in the
old rooms for a few days longer.
The annual meeting of the Ladies'
auxiliary will be held at the Y. M. c. A.
hall Saturday, April 8, at 2 p. m. A full
attendance is desired.
Mr.. Z. Z. Bond has purchased Mr.. w.
S. Alden's place or Seminary street and
will move into the house at once. The
price paid is not made public.
Hon. w. p. Nash bought of Mr.. Tup-
per and DR.. Porter the stock of goods in
the Case & Rider drug store, and Mr.. N.
F. Rider is running it again.
The snow has disappeared from the
streets and merchants use wagons instead
of sleighs for delivering goods. The
truckmen took to wheels Tuesday.
The stores have been open evenings for
the past week, with the exception of
Wednesday. AS yet the evening business
is light, but will increase as the season
advances.
1t is understood that Mr.. II. j. Chap
man has sold his house and lot on North
Pleasant street to local parties. Neither
the price nor the name of the buyer is
revealed.
The union Fast-day services will be
held at the Baptist church this morning,
beginning at II o'clock. Rev. DR.. White,
acting pastor of the Congregational
church, will preach.
The w. c. Il. L. invite all ladies inter-
ested in sewing for needy children that
they may be decently clothed to attend
school, to meet at Mrs. George Barton's
Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock to
assist in such work,
The rain, Monday, took off the snow
very rapidly and had the effect of raising
streams considerably. But the freeze-up,
Tuesday, checked the thaw; and, though
the creek and its tributaries are high, nc
damage has yet been done.
Mr.. Page G.. Potter and Miss Eta Fielt
were married at s o'clock Wednesday
morning by Rev. DR.. White, acting pas
tor of the Congregational church, ant
took the mail train for Boston. The
bride is a sister of Mrs. Fred G. jackson
The spring term of the college opened
yesterday. Most of the students ar
back. Several members of the JUNO
class have been in town since Monday t,
work upon the Kaleidoscope, the col
lege annual, which that class will pub
lish.
Mr.. \. Williamson shipped eight hea'
of beef cattle and SO calves from thi
station to Boston market Monday. As h
has 20 COWS quarantined in Massachusett
IoN. IC vii buy WILLIE put SoiNNo aH
beef cattle till the pleuro-pneumonia scar
is over.
The first sleighing of the past white
commenced OF Thanksgiving day, Nov
I %, when over "A foot of o fell. Their
+ had been l3l days of continuous sleighini
up to last Tuesday, when the first wheel
were seen in the streets and the end
not yet.
The Bridgman sisters of Boston CAV
I a reading at the Y. NJ. c. A. hall, Wednes
d day evening, for the benefit of the assC
citation. The audience was as large a
> the hall could well accommodate. Th
readings were. in the main, good, son
of them excellent.
The trustees at a meeting Friday ever
II ing voted to restore Clay n. Dickinson
the position of night Waterman. He ha
= accordingly entered upon the duties {
o that place. The petition asking h
restoration was signed by almost all til
business men of the village.
e At the regular monthly business NEE
\ ing of the Y. M. c. A., Wednesday ever
ing, Prof. ii. NJ. Seely was elected trea
urer in place of Mr.. G. f. Marshall, r
signed, and Mr.. Virgil Benedict, vic
president, to take the place of Dea. H..
g Chapman, who will soon leave town.
Mr.. George NJ. Fletcher will erect
residence this season on the west side
South street on the land he bought la
re fall of Hon. l.. ID. Eldredge. He got o.
the stone for the foundation before whit
set in, finding an abundance of f~irst-cla
material for the purpose OIL the rear pc
re- tion of the prauicac